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Also see [ Railway Officials in America 1906
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JOSEPH COVEY, of section 14, range 2 Weston Township, Clark County, was born in Clinton County, New York,
January 7, 1862, the son of James F. and Cornelia (Buriee) Covey, of Warren County, New York. They were the parents
of seven children: Albert, Laura, Melvina, Sarah, John, Joseph and Alvin, The mother died June 4, 1889. The father
had been married prior to his union with our subject's mother, and by his first wife bad three children; Charles,
Louis and William.
The subject of this sketch was reared to farm life and educated in the common schools. He remained with his parents
in Warren County until twelve years of age, where he was engaged in the pineries and driving logs on the Hudson
River. He came to this county in June, 1885, and has since followed logging on the Black and Poplar rivers, and
also farming. Mr. Covey was married April 29, 1883, to Jennie Pratt, a daughter of Edward Pratt, of Greenwood,
this county; she was born in Warrensburg, New York, July 21, 1865. Her mother was Betsey Ann Middleton. Mr. and
Mrs. Covey have two children: Howard and Hattie. Mr. Pratt came to this county in December, 1884, remained in Eaton
that winter, then came to Christy, where he lived two and a half years, and next moved to Greenwood, where he keeps
a general store.
FROM:
Biographical History of
Clark and Jackson Counties Wisconsin
Lewis Publishing Company.
Chiago, 1891.
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